Class 11 boy runs away with ₹33L cash after parents scold him for gaming

Class 11 boy runs away with ₹33L cash after parents scold him for gaming

Chennai: 20.11.2021

A Class 11 boy, who left his house in Washermenpet with ₹33 lakh in cash and 213 sovereigns of gold ornaments after his parents restricted him from playing online games, was traced to Tambaram within 24 hours by the city police on Thursday. The 15-year-old was planning to run away to Nepal with the stolen booty.

Police said Prakash (name changed), son of a metro water contractor Venkat Kumar from Mottai Thottam in Washermenpet used to spend several hours playing online games. He was addicted to these games and used his parents’ smartphones even during the online classes.

After noticing this, his mother who works as a professor at a women's college in Vallalar Nagar, scolded him and restricted his screen time.

On Wednesday, Prakash left his house did not return for over two hours. His worried parents searched for him in the entire neighbourhood and inquired with all his friends. At home, they found the cash and gold ornaments worth ₹75 lakh gone from the safe. They immediately contacted the Washermenpet deputy commissioner of police Shiva Prasad and filed a missing complaint. The police worked in special teams and tracked Prakash using his phone with the help of cyber crime sleuths. He was traced to a lodge near Tambaram, where a police team was rushed to rescue him.

Initial inquiries revealed that the boy was getting ready to pledge a portion of the gold in a pawn shop and had already booked a flight ticket to Kathmandu in Nepal.

The police team managed to bring the boy back to Washermenpet and reunited him with the family along with the valuables.

39,500 from state clear NEET UG, to vie for 12,700 seats

39,500 from state clear NEET UG, to vie for 12,700 seats

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad:19.11.2021

Of the 68,000 candidates who took the NEET UG 2021 exam from Gujarat, 39,570 have qualified.

They will now compete for the 12,707 seats at medical, dental, ayurveda and homeopathy colleges in the state.

“In the general category, 9,521 candidates qualified while 7,303 have cleared from the EWS category. In the OBC category, 15,706 candidates cleared NEET UG while 4,043 qualified in the SC category 4,043 and 3,096 in the ST category,” said a source in the admission committee.

Tha admission committee has started online registration for medical, dental, homeopathy and ayurveda seats from November 17.

There are 30 medical colleges in the state with 5,550 MBBS seats,12 dental colleges with 1,255 seats, 2,242 seats at 33 ayurveda colleges and 36 homeopathy colleges having a total capacity of 3,710 seats.

In all there are 12,707 seats for which the Admission Committee for Professional Under Graduate Medical Educational Courses (ACPUGMEC) will conduct admissions this year.

Skin-to-skin contact not a must in Pocso offences: SC

Skin-to-skin contact not a must in Pocso offences: SC

AmitAnand.Choudhary@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:19.11.2021

Holding that physical contact with a child with sexual intent could not be trivialised by excluding it from the ambit of sexual assault, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that skin-toskin touch is not essential and even indirect touch amounts to an offence under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. A bench of Justices U U Lalit, S Ravindra Bhat and Bela M Trivedi quashed two judgments of the Bombay HC which held that “skin to skin” contact was essential for proving offences under Pocso Act, and said such a narrow interpretation would defeat the purpose of the Act.

HC verdicts passed in Jan led to considerable outrage

The high court ruling had caused widespread consternation as it could have allowed offenders to exploit the “skin-to-skin” contact reference to escape the ambit of the law. “The act of touching any sexual part of the body of a child with sexual intent or any other act involving physical contact with sexual intent, could not be trivialised or held insignificant or peripheral so as to exclude such act from the purview of “sexual assault” under Section 7,” it said.

It noted use of gloves, cloth, or contact through clothes, or even use of condoms, could have been excluded in the light of the HC orders despite sexual intent. The HC verdicts passed in January led to considerable outrage and it was attorney general K K Venugopal who challenged the verdict before the Supreme Court saying the orders were outrageous and will have wider ramifications on 43,000 Pocso cases registered every year in the country.

Later on, the National Commission for Women and Maharashtra goverenment also filed an appeal against the HC verdicts. Allowing their pleas, the bench said that any narrow and pedantic interpretation of the provision which would defeat the object of the provision, cannot be accepted.

“Restricting the interpretation of the words “touch” or physical contact” to “skin to skin contact” would not only be a narrow and pedantic interpretation of the provision contained in Section 7 of the Pocso Act, but it would lead to an absurd interpretation of the said provision. “Skin to skin contact” for constituting an offence of “sexual assault” could not have been intended or contemplated by the legislature,” Justice Trivedi, who penned the judgment for herself and Justice Lalit, said.

NCW welcomes SC order in skin-to-skin case

New Delhi:

The National Commission for Women has welcomed the Supreme Court’s order setting aside the Bombay High Court’s Nagpur bench’s judgment that held that skin-to-skin contact was necessary for the offence of sexual assault under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act. On February 4, NCW had filed an SLP before the Supreme Court challenging the judgment stating that it would set a dangerous precedent for women safety.

The commission while filing the SLP had raised concern that the order had far reaching ramifications for women and children, exposing them to a desensitised society. “The commission welcomes the SC verdict today and believes that the apex court’s decision in the matter will uphold the legal and constitutional safeguard for women and children,” NCW said in the statement. TNN

Tirumala caught in massive flood, flights to Tirupati hit

Tirumala caught in massive flood, flights to Tirupati hit

Amaravati\Tirupati:  19.11.2021

Tirumala, the abode of Lord Venkateswara, was caught in a massive flood of unprecedented scale on Thursday, leaving hundreds of pilgrims stranded even as a heavy downpour under the influence of a depression in Bay of Bengal battered the temple-town Tirupati and many parts of Chittoor district in Andhra Pradesh.

The four ‘maada streets’ adjoining the main temple on Tirumala Hills, remained flooded, as was the Vaikuntham queue complex (cellar). Darshan of the God was virtually stalled as pilgrims could not venture out because of the inundation. The Japali Anjaneya Swamy temple on Tirumala was inundated and idol of the God submerged. The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams officials made arrangement for free food and accommodation for the pilgrims stranded on the holy hills. TTD executive officer K S Jawahar Reddy declared a holiday on Friday for the office staff in view of the situation. The two ghat roads leading to the Tirumala Hills were closed for traffic following the flood and landslides, official sources said. The pedestrian stairway leading to the temple from Alipiri was also closed down, they said.

The Tirupati International Airport at Renigunta also remained inundated, forcing the authorities to stop landing of incoming aircraft. Airport director S Suresh said two passenger flights scheduled to land in Tirupati from Hyderabad and Bengaluru were asked to return. A scheduled flight from New Delhi has been cancelled due to the prevailing weather condition, he added.

The TTD additional executive officer’s office in Tirumala remained marooned, as were many guest houses. A landslide damaged three rooms at the Narayanagiri guest house complex but nothing untoward has been reported as the rooms were unoccupied, official sources said. Pilgrims staying in other rooms in Narayanagiri and nearby S V guest house were shifted to other accommodation. In Srinivasa Mangapuram near Tirupati, two autos were washed away as the Swarnamukhi rivulet remained in spate. A bridge on the Renigunta-Kadapa highway remained in a precarious position at Anjaneyapuram. A truck was stranded on the bridge, causing a traffic jam on either side, even as police reached the spot for a rescue operation.

Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy spoke to Chittoor district collector M Hari Narayanan and reviewed the situation. PTI

IN DEEP WATER: Ghat roads of Tirupati which lead to Lord Venkateshwara Temple closed following heavy rainfall in AP’s temple town on Thursday

Covid test lapses by 1 min, pregnant woman & 2 others denied boarding

Covid test lapses by 1 min, pregnant woman & 2 others denied boarding

Petlee.Peter@timesgroup.com

Bengaluru:19.11.2021

A family of three, including a pregnant woman, was denied boarding an Indi-Go flight to Dubai, citing that the 48-hour validity of their RT-PCR negative test reports had lapsed by one minute. They were not allowed to board the flight even though they took Rapid RT-PCR tests at the airport for ₹3,000 each.

All Indian passengers headed to the UAE must clear this pre-departure test, besides carrying RT-PCR negative reports not older than 48 hours. Rukhsar Memon, 28, husband Suhail Syed, 39, and his mother Mamtaz Munawar, 63, had come to Bengaluru for their annual holiday at their Nandidurga Road home on October 9 this year.

On Tuesday morning, the family went to the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) to board the IndiGo flight 6E 95 from Bengaluru to Dubai scheduled to take off at 1.15pm. As per pre-departure requirement for UAE travellers, the three, including13-week pregnant Rukhsar, took Rapid RT-PCR tests outside KIA and secured negative reports for ₹9,000 before reaching the IndiGo check-in counter around 10am on Tuesday. Then came the shocker.

“We were denied boarding for the 1.15pm flight on Tuesday as the IndiGo ground staff said our initial RT-PCR test reports showed that our samples were collected at 1.15pm on Sunday,” recalled Suhail, who works as a sales executive with a Dubai-based health insurance firm. The airline calculates the 48-hour validity period from the time of sample collection.

The IndiGo ground staff told the family that by the time the flight takes off at 1.15pm, their RT-PCR reports will be “aged one minute over the mandated 48 hours”. “We requested the IndiGo manager at the airport to kindly consider us since we were well within the 48-hour validity when we reached the airport. My pregnant wife and my elderly mother were travelling with me. The employees were rude to us, especially the airline manager, as they dragged us for three long hours and finally denying us boarding,” said Suhail on his family’s ordeal.

Full report on www.toi.in

இந்தியா செல்லும் பெண் சுற்றுலா பயணியருக்கு அமெரிக்கா எச்சரிக்கை

இந்தியா செல்லும் பெண் சுற்றுலா பயணியருக்கு அமெரிக்கா எச்சரிக்கை

Updated : நவ 18, 2021 06:39 | Added : நவ 18, 2021 06:37 |

புதுடில்லி : 'பெண்களுக்கு எதிரான குற்றங்கள் அதிகரித்து வருவதால், பெண் சுற்றுலா பயணியர் இந்தியாவுக்கு தனியாக பயணம் மேற்கொள்ள வேண்டாம்' என, தங்கள் நாட்டு சுற்றுலா பயணியருக்கு டில்லியில் உள்ள அமெரிக்க துாதரகம் அறிவுறுத்தி உள்ளது.

டில்லியில் உள்ள அமெரிக்க துாதரகம் தங்கள் நாட்டு சுற்றுலா பயணியருக்கான பயண ஆலோசனை அறிக்கையை வெளியிட்டுள்ளது. அதன் விபரம்: இந்தியாவில் பெண்களுக்கு எதிரான பாலியல் வன்முறைகள் அதிகரித்து வருவதாக அதிகாரிகள் தெரிவிக்கின்றனர்.

சுற்றுலாதலங்கள் உட்பட பல்வேறு இடங்களில் கொடூரமான வன்முறைகள், பாலியல் பலாத்காரங்கள் அதிகரித்துள்ளன. எனவே அமெரிக்க சுற்றுலா பயணியர், குறிப்பாக பெண்கள் தனியாக இந்தியாவுக்கு பயணம் மேற்கொள்ள வேண்டாம். இவ்வாறு அதில் கூறப்பட்டுள்ளது.

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